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    Challenges→Fine-tuning provides more reason to expect a life-permitting universe under omni-theism than under source physicalism

    An inference to the better explanation requires that both hypotheses generate determinate, comparable predictions, a condition the fine-tuning argument fails to satisfy.

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    • 1.Multiverse hypotheses generate no testable predictions about observable fine-tuning parameters in our universe.
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    • 2.Design and naturalism make incomparable predictions: design predicts apparent optimization; naturalism predicts randomness indifferently.
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    • 3.Abductive inference requires shared explanatory frameworks; fine-tuning arguments compare fundamentally incommensurable metaphysical models.
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    • 1.Both hypotheses do generate comparable predictions: design predicts apparent optimization; multiverse predicts observed fine-tuning by selection.
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    • 2.Incommensurability objection proves too much; it would disqualify most historical scientific theory comparisons across paradigms.
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    • 3.The criterion of 'determinate predictions' is artificially strict; abduction often compares hypotheses with indeterminate or untestable consequences.
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